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‘He’s in shock’ Horror Bathurst crash | 01:40
Bathurst 12 Hour driver Stephen Grove has been hospitalised after a violent crash saw the driver nearly exit the race course entirely amid a collision that sent him airborne.
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It was a late attempt from Grove to overtake his own teammate Kenny Habul that saw him and his car go off-course thanks to side-on contact.
In-car audio in the seconds after his crash revealed an anxious Grove sounding winded and repeatedly moaning, before eventually exiting the vehicle. He was taken to the trackside medical centre before being transferred to Orange Hospital by road for further assessments, a Supercars spokesperson later confirmed.
So airborne was Grove in the crash, that the veteran came scarily close to clearing the concrete wall that surrounds the course. Given the crash took place at Skyline at the track’s peak at the top of Mount Panorama, the result could have been fatal had his car rolled down.
“That’s the closest a car has ever gone to going over the wall there,” commentator Richard Craill said just after the crash.
“A fair bit of shock in the cockpit there.”
Despite the friendly fire between the teammates, stewards deemed the crash a racing incident meaning no penalties were enforced against either Grove or Habul.
Australian Supercars icon Craig Lowndes exited the race prematurely on Sunday, after also crashing at the top of the mountain.
The 12-hour race first begun in 1991, however has not been raced annually with hiatus’ due to rising costs in manufacturing and more recently, Covid.
